Words similar to mistake

Example sentences for: mistake

How can you use “mistake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I think you are making a mistake to equate distaste for wedlock with libertinism.
It would be a mistake to confuse Barr's skill at setting fires with real power.
That's why it's a mistake for the Journal to wait until the fifth paragraph to mention that the U.K. government merely thinks that the drug isn't cost-effective.
This heart warming true story will reach teens with two powerful messages: first, save sex for marriage; secondly, if you have made the mistake of engaging in pre-marital sex, you can change your ways.
Hence ebonics was seen by the American public at large as a declaration of independence in need of quashing, an internal threat, a wild mistake, while American English, itself a partly revolutionary, postcolonial product, is seen as simply "the way things are" (that is, unless you're Prince Charles).